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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8966

11 June 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/entreprise

10/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) network will bring together some 400 experts in innovation and technology transfer from 27 to 29 June in Brussels on the occasion of its annual meeting organised by the European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry and the Brussels Innovation Relay Centre (BIRC) and hosted by the Brussels Enterprise Agency. Under the banner “From regional innovation to international competitiveness”, this...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: A few steps to reassure the Europeans and inspire them to dream
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/GENERAL AFFAIRS: Monday's Council to prepare for European COuncil, but no result expected on main dossiers - Diplomatic sanctions against Cuba will remain on ice - conclave on financial perspectives and Croatia "Task Force" to be held on Sunday
(EU) EU/IRAQ: European troika mission in Baghdad before international conference on 22 June in Brussels. - European Commission announces its intention to open delegation in Baghdad
(EU) EP/BRITISH PRESIDENCY: Prescott is EP's main interlocutor
(EU) EP/UNITED STATES: EP wants transatlantic partnership agreement, but Commission remains unconvinced
(EU) EP/BOLIVIA: Parliament wants to send delegation
(EU) EU/UZBEKISTAN: EP wants international investigation into repression at Andijan - 'Do not destabilise the country'
(EU) EP/UN:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Member States will try to make headway on Sunday - France and Germany prepared to accept constructive compromise but not a total rehaul of farm spending
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Peter Straub writes to Jean-Claude Juncker: the EU must equip itself with the means to achieve its ambitions - Both costs and benefits should be shared equally
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission closes investigation following changes to gas supply contracts between E.ON Ruhrgas and Gazprom
(EU) EU/G7: Juncker in London for finance ministers' meeting
(EU) EU/OPEC: Barrel price could be $30-50, OPEC president says after talks with EU
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Measures for protecting anchovy in Bay of Biscay
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EP/MONEY LAUNDERING: Travellers crossing EU borders with more than 10000 euros will have to sign declaration
(EU) EP/TAXATION: Towards new rules for distance sales of excisable products
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT:
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: More money for rural development and reduced funding rates, depending on different intervention planks
(EU) EP/INSURANCE: First European legal regime for re-insurance to remove collateral by 2010
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS: Commission asks business where to cut red tape
(EU) EU/CIVIL SERVICE/LISBON STRATEGY: Mondorf-les-Bains meeting highlights role of public administrations in implementing Lisbon Strategy
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES:
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Go-ahead for Solvay Soda in Germany
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Authorisation of Dutch aid for European Train Control System
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE/ANIMAL WELFARE:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL POLICY/RAIL TRANSPORT: European social partners in railway sector welcome Council's political agreement on working conditions for mobile railway personnel - Criticism from European Rail Freight Customers Platform
(EU) EP/WORKING TIME/UNITED KINGDOM:
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/BALKANS:
(EU) OECD/EU/USA: Reduction in barriers to competition, investment and trade would allow increased growth
(EU) EU/REGIONS: “More respect for the regions, More Europe”, demands European Free Alliance of President Barroso
(EU) EU/NETWORK INDUSTRIES: Social partners identify conditions to be met to reform network industries
(EU) EU/ENTREPRISE:
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